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Aalto, Alvar (Hugo Alvar Henrik)

(1898–1976)

Abbe, Ernst

(1840–1905)

Abel, Neils Henrik

(1802–1829)

Abercrombie, (Leslie) Patrick

(1879–1957)

Abetti, Giorgio

(1882–1982)

Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeevich

(1928– )

Abrikosov, Alexei Alexeyevich

(1928– )

Ackerman, James S(loss)

(1919– )

Ackerman, Nathan W(ard)

(1909–1971)

Adam (architects)

Adams, John Couch

(1819–1892)

Adams, Robert McC. (McCormick)

(1926– )

Adams, Walter Sydney

(1876–1956)

Addams, Jane

(1860–1935)

Addison, Thomas

(1793–1860)

Adleman, Leonard

(1945– )

Adler, Alfred

(1870–1937)

Adler, Dankmar

(1844–1900)

Adrian, Edgar Douglas

(1889–1977)

Agassiz, (Jean) Louis Rodolphe

(1807–1873)

Agnesi, Maria Gaetana

(1718–1799)

Agnon, Shmuel Yosef

(1888–1970)

Agre, Peter

(1949– )

Agre, Peter Courtland

(1949– )

Agricola, Georgius

(1490–1555)

Ahtisaari, Martti (Oiva Kalevi)

(1937– )

Aiken, Howard Hathaway

(1900–1973)

Airy, George Biddell

(1801–1892)

Aitken, Robert Grant

(1864–1951)

Alberti, Leon Battista

(1404–1472)

Alder, Kurt

(1902–1958)

Aleixandre, Vicente

(1898–1984)

Aleksandrov, Pavel Sergeevich

(1896–1982)

Alessi, Galeazzo

(1512–1572)

Alexander, Hattie Elizabeth

(1901–1968)

Alferov, Zhores Ivanovich

(1930– )

Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta

(1908–1995)

Alhazen, Abu Alī al-Hassan ibn al-Haytham

(c. 965–1038)

Allais, Maurice

(1911–2010)

Allport, Gordon (Willard)

(1897–1967)

Alpher, Ralph Asher

(1921–2007)

al-Sufi

(903–986)

Alter, David

(1807–1881)

Altman, Sidney

(1939– )

Alvarez, Luis Walter

(1911–1988)

Alzheimer, Alois

(1864–1915)

Ambartsumian, Viktor Amazasp Amazaspovich

(1908–1996)

Ammanati, Bartolommeo

(1511–1592)

Ampère, André-Marie

(1775–1836)

Amsler-Laffon, Jakob

(1823–1912)

Anastasi, Anne

(1908–2001)

Anaximander the Elder

(c. 611–547 BC)

Anderson, Carl David

(1905–1991)

Anderson, Philip Warren

(1923– )

Ando, Tadao

(1941– )

Andrews, Thomas

(1813–1885)

Andrič, Ivo

(1892–1974)

Andronicus II Palaeologus

(1260–1332)

Anfinsen, Christian Boehmer

(1916–1995)

Angell, James (Rowland)

(1869–1949)

Angell, (Ralph) Norman

(1874–1967)

Ångström, Anders Jonas

(1814–1874)

Annan, Kofi

(1938– )

Annear, Harold Desbrowe

(1865–1933)

Anning, Mary

(1799–1847)

Anokhin, Piotre Kuzmich

(1897–1974)

Anthemius

Antoniadi, Eugène Marie

(1870–1944)

Apgar, Virginia

(1909–1974)

Apollodorus

(AD 97–130)

Apollonius of Perga

(c. 245–c.190 BC)

Appert, Nicolas François

(c.1750–1841)

Appleton, Edward Victor

(1892–1965)

Arafat, Yassir

(1929–2004)

Arago, (Dominique) François (Jean)

(1786–1853)

Arber, Werner

(1929– )

Archer, John Lee

(1791–1852)

Archer, Thomas

(1668–1743)

Archimedes

(c. 287–212 BC)

Ardemáns, Teodoro

(1664–1726)

Argand, Jean Robert

(1768–1822)

Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August

(1799–1875)

Argyris, Chris(topher)

(1923– )

Argyropoulos, John (Janos)

(c. 1415–1487)

Arias Sanchez, Oscar

(1940– )

Aristarchos

(c. 320–c. 250 BC)

Aristotle

Arkwright, Richard

(1732–1792)

Armelagos, George J(ohn)

(1936– )

Armstrong, Edwin Howard

(1890–1954)

Armstrong, William George

(1810–1900)

Arnolfo di Cambio

(c. 1245–c. 1302)

Arp, Halton Christian

(1927– )

Arrhenius, Svante August

(1859–1927)

Arrow, Kenneth Joseph

(1921– )

Artin, Emil

(1898–1962)

Arup, Ove

(1895–1988)

Asplund, (Erik) Gunnar

(1885–1940)

Aston, Francis William

(1877–1945)

Asturias, Miguel Ángel

(1899–1974)

Atkinson, Robert D'escourt

(1898–1982)

Attenborough, David Frederick

(1926– )

Audubon, John James Laforest

(1785–1851)

Auer, Carl

Aumann, Robert John

(1930– )

Aung San Suu Kyi

(1945– )

Avery, Oswald Theodore

(1877–1955)

Avicenna

(980–1037)

Avogadro, Amedeo

(1776–1856)

Axel, Richard

(1946– )

Axelrod, Julius

(1912–2004)

Ayrton, Hertha (Phoebe Sarah) Marks

(1854–1923)

Ayrton, William Edward

(1847–1908)

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